What I found at VnD made me sure that this was a resource that I wanted to feature in a tip. VnD is from the Korean Bioinformation Center, or KOBIC, who has a list of databases and tools that they provide. I’ll save the rest of the KOBIC resources for another post & concentrate on VnD here. Compiling data from resources such as RefSeq, OMIM, UniProt, PDB, DrugBank, dbSNP, GAD and more might have been cool enough, depending on how it was done, but the VnD also does their own structure modeling analysis on how the variation affects the protein structure and drug/ligand binding.

This tip movie isn’t long enough to really show you the breadth of what is available from the VnD, but I hope it will be enough to encourage you to read the NAR article (listed below), and to check out VnD. One thing to note: don’t expect to find every dbSNP rs# over there – one that I’ve been using in our tutorial isn’t over there. They are specifically interested in variations within genes that might effect drug binding. But hey, you can’t query DrugBank with rs#s, and I’ve never seen the structure modeling done like VnD, so it is a worthy resource that you may want to investigate if you are interested in how genetic variations connect with disease and drug therapies.